CA Blog – Computers are Poor Decision-Makers for Ill-Defined Problems
(This post was originally written in August of 2018.) - Get a bunch of humans together to make some decisions, and some of them are bound to get it wrong. Humans are wildly different from each other, with so many different life experiences that lead up to a decision that there is... More
CA Blog – Google Has Its Fingers In Many Pies, But Isn’t Monopolizing Any Individual Pie
(This post was originally written in July of 2018.) This post was written by Sarah Scheffler, a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science studying applied cryptography. - There’s a fair amount of talk about Google having a monopoly, and some people (including me) have wondered why no regulatory body in the U.S. has... More
CA Blog – (Fewer than) Five Reasons The Tech Sector Isn’t All That Different
(This post was originally written in February of 2018.) Greetings, and welcome to the first blog post inspired by Boston University’s Cyber Alliance seminar series. The authors are a second-year Ph.D. student in computer science at BU (Sarah), and a third-year law student at BU (Jacob). We’ll be making posts based... More
Introducing the Cyber Alliance Blog
The Cyber Security, Law, and Society Alliance (or Cyber Alliance for short) has been holding discussions and presentations since the fall of 2016. We are now beginning an informal blog to accompany these discussions, with a record of some of the thoughts inspired by these meetings. Stay tuned for more... More
RISCS Hosts 5/12 Charles River Crypto Day
Sponsored and hosted by the Hariri Institute for Computing and the BU Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS), the Charles River Crypto Day brings together academics and research scientists from local universities and research labs to discuss recent advances in cryptography. The Charles River Crypto Day series, More